Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity 2004
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92. Prayer of Theodoretus and Cyriacus
Description
- Monument:
Four blue-grey marble fragments (0.15 × 0.975 (total) × 0.20) which join, from the crowning feature of a balustrade; the top is smooth; one side has a moulded profile, the other is smooth,
tapering inwards. The underside has been left rough. Resembles 93, 94, 95, 96.
- Text:
Inscribed in one line on upper fascia of moulded profile.
- Letters:
0.035-0.04; elongated, lunate.
- Date:
Fifth/sixth century (location, script).
Text
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[...]ι̣ὴλ βοήθησον τοῖς δούλοις σου Θεοδωρήτῳ κ(αὶ) Κυριακῷ cross leaf vac.
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Translation
[...]iel help your servants Theodoretus and Cyriacus
Photographs
| Left end fragment (1970) |
Right end fragment (1972) |
Assembled fragments (1977) |
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Commentary
See discussion at VII.10.
For the history of the Temple-Church see VII.4.
Locations
- Found:
Temple-Church: Three fragments found in sectors xv and xiii, str. 1; one stray find.
- Original:
Temple-Church: ?Crowning the chancel barrier.
- Last Recorded:
Museum.
History
- Recording:
Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1962 and 1968 (62.100, 62.111, 68.292).
- Bibliography:
Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 92 and plate xxiii, whence PHI 648.
- Text constituted from:
Transcription (Roueché).
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